The terrifying moment a road rage incident escalated as a man blocked a car before emerging with a knife has been captured on dashcam footage.
A listener contacted 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Wednesday to say her grandson Brad, 24, her 22-year granddaughter and a friend were on their way to an NRL game on April 5 when a man stopped a white hatchback in front of them on Yerrick Road, Lakemba in Sydney’s west.
‘My grandson had a man jump out of his car in a state of utter rage holding a knife,’ she told the station.
‘He was punching his arms into the air … and as he approached my grandson’s car he started knifing the car.
‘My granddaughter and her friend were in the back seat. My granddaughter … called triple 0.’
The occupants of the black car, which had the dashcam, can be heard repeatedly saying ‘Don’t get out of the car’, before the man emerged from his vehicle in the rain, wearing a black hoodie and black shorts – and brandishing a knife
The white hatchback was seen overtaking the vehicle with the dashcam and stopping on the road
NSW Police told Daily Mail Australia they were investigating the alleged road rage incident.
‘Officers attached to Campsie Police Area Command commenced an investigation after the matter was reported later the same day,’ a spokesperson said.
In the dashcam footage the listener’s relatives can be heard repeatedly saying ‘Don’t get out of the car’, before the man emerged from his vehicle in the rain, wearing a black hoodie and black shorts – and brandishing a knife.
The video then showed the man running towards the black vehicle and hitting the side of the car.
Brad then hit the accelerator to avoid the knife-wielding man.
One of the occupants of the black car said they needed to ‘call the cops’ before realising their frightening encounter wasn’t over yet – the man was now following them
A crash can be heard, and it appeared that the vehicle trying to get away may have clipped the stationary white car.
The occupants of the black car can be heard asking each other ‘why he did that’.
‘Did you not see what he was doing?,’ Brad asks.
‘He had a knife in his hands,’ a female replied.
The listener’s granddaughter said they needed to ‘call the cops’ before realising their frightening encounter wasn’t over yet – the man was now following them.
The terrifying encounter left the black vehicle damaged after a collision trying to escape the knifeman, as well as ‘keying’ on the paint along side the car from the man
‘Oh my God, he’s coming after you, call the police,’ one female can be heard saying.
One of the woman can then be heard saying: ‘I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared.’
Pictures at the end of the video showed the damage to the front passenger side of the black car from the collision and where the man has appeared to have scratched the vehicle with his knife.
‘My grandson is going to find it hard to drive the car knowing what occurred in it,’ the listener continued.
‘They are very frightened about what happened. He had to go up the footpath at certain points to get out of the path of the road rage because the guy was chasing him.’
